Partnerships for Good – private sector and social enterprise alliances
Booklet of diverse case studies of social enterprise and private sector partnership working.
There are key advantages for both social enterprise and the private sector in working together to achieve social change and develop sustainable businesses. In the past few years we have seen a growing trend to bring profit and purpose closer together. From increasing numbers of entrepreneurs wanting to make a difference, consumers taking a greater interest in supply chains and environmental concerns and investors and shareholders keen track the positive and negative impacts a company may have.
Subsequently, more businesses are looking for certification as they seek to satisfy consumer demands and increasingly more public sector and other contracts take into account social impact and community benefit.
Against this background we are seeing a wide range of partnerships develop between the social enterprise and private sector.
This document highlights a few such case studies including:
- The Retail Academy
- Hey Girls
- Brewgooder
- Wildhearts
- Shetland Soap
- Glencraft
- Scotland's Bravest
